Robinson and two of his former Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology classmates, Peter Argiris and Jeff Ready, opened Centerpoint softly on Oct. 28.

"Our appeal to the more casual beer drinker makes us different." Robinson said. "We try to make beers that are well-balanced and easy-drinking. We're not making the hoppiest IPAs or the highest-alcohol beers."

Argiris and Robinson have both been homebrewers for a number of years but only began seriously thinking about opening a brewery in 2012.

"I didn't really have any aspirations to start a business, but he talked me into it," Robinson said.

Robinson and Ready kept their day jobs: Robinson is a mechanical engineer at Mussett Nicholas and Associates, and Ready is CEO and founder of virtualization software firm Scale Computing. Argiris, a chemical engineer in background, is full time with the brewery.

"Our engineering background brings that attention to detail," Robinson said. "We're really sweating the details of controlling each aspect so that we have that consistent quality product at the end."

Engineering is in the name, too: Centerpoint is "about finding the right intersection between ingredients."

The brewery occupies 17,500 square feet inside the 400,000-square-foot industrial complex, near Mass Ave. and 10th Street. Of that, 750-square-foot is an outward-facing taproom that feels as industrial as the name of the building it's housed in. With a backlit, half-circle metal fixture sporting the company's logo behind a wooden bar with a metal top, the taproom feels like a slick, modern factory.

"All throughout our business planning we never thought we'd have a taproom that would look that nice," he said. "Our plan was throwing a few picnic tables in the corner and calling it good."

But then they landed the sizable brewery space and were able to work with some of the industrial complex's other tenants to help with the construction. A friend with interior design experience helped, Robinson said.

Centerpoint has four beers on tap: A light-style kolsch, a lower-alcohol session white IPA, a red IPA and a porter. Robinson said they will keep the number of available beers to a minimum in an effort to control consistency.

"We’ve had a lot of great reactions, from the tasting room to the beer — which is the most important part."